Do you know of Key ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Key. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Key.

Our sources for Key (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Key other than they indicate that Key would be found somewhere in Bremer County, Iowa.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Key ...

We found ten communities that share the name Key.

Within Iowa, the name Key is unique.

Beyond Iowa, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Cherokee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Key [Cherokee County].
- Arkansas
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Key [Benton County].
- Georgia
  - Brooks County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Key [Brooks County].
- Kansas
  - Cloud County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Key [Cloud County].
- Ohio
  - Belmont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Key [Belmont County].
- Saskatchewan
  - Please visit our profile page for the Saskatchewan community of Key.
- South Carolina
  - Marlboro County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Key [Marlboro County].
- Tennessee
  - White County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Key [White County].
- Texas
  - Dawson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Key [Dawson County].
- West Virginia
  - Pendleton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Key [Pendleton County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Key ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Key:

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Key - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in Bremer County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Bremer County.

Babcock	Mentor
	Murphy
Dickey
	Pony
Frederica
	Syracuse
Maxfield

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Key could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.